a meteor or crushes in central russia causing damage and leaving over twelve hundred. fresh scenes of violence and bahrain with stone throwing protesters are hit with tear gas and stun grenades in clashes which threaten attempts to ease two years of anti regime unrest in the gulf going. on to bomb a secure is washington's expanding counterterrorism efforts of the middle east as it lays out the barrackers global priority plan in his state of the union address. and more nuclear test shock waves from north korea which detonates a third device despite a un ban and international sanctions. hello

this is r.t. you're watching or rather with the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin oh in here in moscow tonight it's good to have your company and first of course the big story of the week the world was wide eyed this last week over those dramatic images from central russia a plunging meteor exploded with a blinding flash before crashing in the urals on friday let's take a closer look at this not hard to imagine of course the panic that ensued the shock as this thing this fireball raced overhead it took a while for people to realize exactly what was happening now. you know i saw this picture let's take a look at it again look at the windows coming in there that made a lot of headlines in the week that meteor blast set off a powerful shockwave smashing windows in buildings injuring and bewildering people inside lucky that there weren't bigger injuries just take a look at it this kind of takes

a closer look at how it all happened. it was like a scene from a movie but with one exception it was real first the brilliant flash was big bright like he was shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun the skies were lit up by a meteor streaking across the skies above the russian city of over one and a half thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just any usual glare on the floor i thought it all lies from them we went to the window saw this strange cloud and then and then this. would turn around and the wall was a gun like someone had moved it the series of massive explosions rocked the entire city damaging buildings and shattering windows.

nasa said the explosive force of the media were breaking up was the equivalent of two one to hear oshima bombs over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass. the windows just exploded i saw one girl he had and a bring his hand we were told to quickly put all clothes on and they ran out so many were able to film the owner of the phenomenon later flooding the web with footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the end of the world would mrs reported seeing fragments of the crashing all across the region. i saw a small can there was a weird smell but it was not a fire so i think it's a piece of meat and it's small during them no however most of the sighting started out to be ordinary peed bug fires because so far officials have not found any

fragments of the meteor for now the immediate priority. to look after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially the broken windows in schools and residential areas as sarah bridger's a married drop below minus fifteen celsius is going to take time to clear everything else but for now science like this collapsed factory or a clear reminder no matter how advanced technology gets nowadays often when it comes to nature we can only watch helplessly and hope for the best parties ego piskun or for the urals their world the dramatic strike far that reaction almost instantly online there's so much of it the video being shared and bloggers speculating artie's lindsay france has been keeping an eye on the web responses legacy thick and fast work there not surprisingly of course and some strange ones too yeah a lot can be found online right now pretending this media are as you might imagine from the merely factual to the outright outrageous including president putin

harnessing the power of the media and writing it to earth i am in the news room catching up as much as i can on stuff like this i'll be in the studio with you more on that in just a couple of minutes good stuff thank you we'll see in a bit now the meantime one startling aspect of this is that despite the huge size of the meteor no one seemed to see it coming really shed some light on that side of the story that potentially alarming for us all of the future. you may wonder why the scientists haven't seen this thing coming after all it was quite a doozy was really large as a matter of fact bugs at the same time the scientists are saying that there's way too many things flying out there in outer space and although this one was a big one they can't really keep track of everything that's coming but seriously this thing weighed more than ten thousand tons when it was approaching earth so the scientists say of course when it entered the atmosphere it mind blowing the speed of thirty kilometers per second that's really really fast when it entered the

atmosphere it broke into several pieces and those went scattering all over the region this is the region that we're actually concerned with but it actually went all around the place we're only going with what the scientists and the emergency ministries are saying and they're saying that this icy pits is not anything for is not something for ice fishing as a matter of fact this is a crater where the fragment one of the fragments has fallen but again they haven't found any fragments of the meteor there so i guess we only have to take their word for it course we have to understand that this actually has been the biggest thing to hit this planet in over a century or so the scientists believe the last time something like this happened was in one thousand nine hundred eighty two when the crash landed somewhere in siberia destroying thousands of square kilometers of forest causing acid rains to fall causing me to asians and plants and forest but it's also one of the biggest mysteries in the universe because nobody has ever found

a crater on the meteor or no no fragments of the meteor have been found so this is kind of a big mystery that a lot of people are trying to cash in on this even even today one hundred years later but back to reality back to present day region of course there has been plenty of damage you've seen the pictures of the damage plants and buildings but actually. a lot of people are saying it could have been a lot worse if history is any indication there are telescopes and networks operated by nasa the us that was cosmos and russia the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect its record asteroids but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter oaklawn that isn't going to matter that could potentially you know do to us what happened to the dinosaurs and another thing to have been scraped in is actually something of

a nuclear hotspot in russia in fact during the soviet era this was the place for nuclear research so it has at least seven nuclear facilities that are located in the region and a lot of people are saying that if at least one of them was hit with one of the fragments from an asteroid we would have been dealing with complications infinitely worse than we're having on our hands right now we would be dealing with a nuclear disaster but thankfully that did not happen and although this entire event was rather frightening and quite damaging still things could have been a lot worse and it's a good thing that everything turned out the way it did. really good reporting there was a brain surgeon this meteor blast went viral be catching up with lindsay from suggest a minute or two to see exactly what came in and out slowly so it's a little when the blows nobody any good there's always somebody willing to cash it in there for a little fake some even troy selling what they claim to fragments of the crush of

the most expensive was on offer i don't know whether anyone took it up was an offer for ten thousand dollars of course it was going to be an interest and so you'd have no way of sorting out a way to see if it was tested it was actually a right for me to you could just been sent something from somebody and couldn't so i think you'd be very awards to part with your money for the lives of frauds but was one bizarre specter of it do you know did anyone actually spend ten thousand dollars on you know i have no idea but i would really like to see that sample of rock they spent that kind of money what else have you got for us this is pictures just yes the twitter sphere is blowing up of the internet is just chock full of funny outrageous just odd things people are posting with maybe a little too much time on their hands you know all this video is great and wonderful but then you hit twitter and you see posts like this tanks are passing down the streets citizens are urged to get out of the shelters lunchbox handouts parents have been arranged only thing and you realized ok this is not really happening this is not the church the same guy sits there and starts tweeting about what's happening in town saying we're being given chemical protection and gas masks

the city is almost entirely evacuated we're setting up barricades and in islam you know we're joking about the know the power of these things and it was a frightening event if you didn't know what was happening at the time if you're reading this it could spread it would startle you and you'll know why is he why does it have so much time to tweet about all of this happening and then i you got you got they did nearly funny stuff to the citizens of chile i've been scar already checking to see which superpowers they have god knows and you know the radiation from the explosion may have caused them to have extra to get someone to mars but honestly when you come to our local weather reports it's negative seventeen degrees celsius in chelyabinsk there's wind and a slight meteor but our schools. yeah but really when he really was the argot i think so ok and then you know who is the guy who you know it's that one liner that happens around valentine's day pluck a star from the sky who is that you know what who promised to pick a star from the sky on valentine's day you're certainly going to tell you that in a team of course and then you've got people from all over you know english speaking

countries tweeting about breaking news baby found in the middle of a meteorite crash that he's miraculously on her arms wrapped in what seems to be red cave and allusion to superman if you get that i got when i saw that thought that was nice and then of course you've got the photoshop action angry birds flying in and the tail is a meteor coming in then you've got the russian or bruce willis popular boy going the world sign of sorts this stuff killed my brother please don't laugh. dollars years ago yes you never know you got to have the men don't know what's going to just north kick in the rocket ride over there russia from the united states field karate hero. because you know you have to go ask where these friends or whatever then of course put an hour of the rock down to the crash site as he does you know as you know i think i don't know that's nice excellent lots of photos of his well also we've got one as well a football fan was over in britain for

a couple of this one football for speculating over that much for three rushes in the. hall just a day before he said it could be read snow for a meteor or a meteor shower would come down and. what do we know that we didn't when i saw this i was thinking you know what i want to know when the red snow is because that game and the earth strike i mean come on city whatever no if the events come to a major frontal it will move frankly very make them. writes more serious matters of the day now and moving on to some other news the volatile situation in bahrain has been exacerbated by the latest clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces this weekend scores were reportedly

injured when riot police used tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators throwing stones and petrol bombs violence broke out when the protesters tried to make their way to the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly killed by security forces earlier this week during a rally marking two years of the anti-government uprising that instead down the term or which followed has jeopardized talks between the sunni dominated government and the mostly she i don't position which in our story the activists say there are no signs of either progress all pending reforms. we're looking at two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on this same day forty two separate another teenager has been killed and this means shows and display the last couple or continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of bahrain it's good that dialogue has come back on the agenda and that there is discussions

happening but it seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dine in jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing what's continuing the violations on the street. libya's also marking the second anniversary of its anti-government uprising putting the security forces on high alert later this hour we take a look at why the ousting of number that he is though no radical change for the president of the country we examine that and more details all. so to the people that choosing the next president with. expected to stay after the break we explain why the results could prove pivotal.

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borders close international flights suspended security forces on high alert that's how libya is marking two years since the beginning of the uprising that resulted in the bloody civil conflict foreign intervention and the toppling of the longtime leader. explains why any celebrations are being overshadowed by desperation with the current government and fears of more unrest. from all going off he has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet what is impossible to imagine a future for libya with good daffy still in power he must. well gadhafi is long gone and we don't need to imagine but can take

a close look the revolt which began in benghazi was followed by an eight month nato bombing campaign costing thousands of lives and left libya torn apart drowning in conflict and suffocating in stagnation still rich in oil libya economically is a mess despite rampant unemployment in an overwhelming housing crisis huge construction projects are on hold and violence reigns if you look at the country before the bombardment and the invasion by nato and nato supported militias. the country now you can clearly see that the country is suffering from the front problems that the not exist before the country's infrastructure has been destroyed and you have militias running. free on the streets attacking people killing people and doing whatever they want so yes

a lot has changed but not for the better amnesty international describes tribalism post gadhafi as armed militias acting completely out of control hundreds of them across the country arresting people without warrant detaining them incommunicado and torturing them all these points gadhafi was accused of by the rebels and the west now the watchdog says this is happening while the government is unwilling or unable to rein the militias in another problem is the south in december libya closed off its borders without niger chad and sudan citing a deterioration of security and declared the region a military zone well recently a video has emerged of representatives of the south libyan tribes declaring independence for the region the federation of south libya they claim the government has failed to secure the inside of the country and borders and this is a result of stalled economic activity and discontinue a. and other essential infrastructure projects that have been driven by

international partners well it's still not clear how that news is being taken in tripoli but it cambodia well for any chance of stability and finally who is reaping the fruits of this revolution well some analysts say it's an economic powerhouse putting lots of money into the region that the west just doesn't have while at the same time benefiting from their military efforts it's china the chinese have no boots on the ground they have no more abuse they're. getting a free ride from the military. the west countries like france so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone we voted check out our website for more analysis of the consequences of the nato about regime change in libya that much more common. during a state of the union speech president obama said america needs to boost its help

for libya and its neighbors to bring security to the rest of region defending its counterterrorism framework he talked about the fate of arab spring countries now outlined plans to end america's afghanistan military mission by the end of next year is going to teach you can then in washington in a state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country spacing first of all paired spreading to different parts of the world for what he said although the u.s. is pulling troops out of afghanistan america's war on terror will continue to listen it's true different al qaeda affiliates of extremist groups have emerged from the arabian peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is evolving. but to meet this threat we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad occupying other nations we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the greatest threat to america although there was no mentioning of the word drones everyone knew that's what the president meant when

saying direct action with no u.s. troops involved what he did not talk about was the limits for this war that they've ministration his waging with the remote control the justification that the administration gave john brennan's words we don't punish people for past guilt strike before they take action that offers a very broad scope for the use of drones to afghanistan president obama wants to leave some troops on the ground past twenty four thousand when they're supposed to be all out in the speech you mentioned ongoing negotiations with the afghan government on that issue and it's going to be a hard bargain because the afghan government risks further spearing anger of their own population over foreign military presence one could sense a change maybe even their concern as the president touched upon the results of the revolution in the arab world he said it's quote unquote messy he said the u.s. cannot dictate the course of changing countries like very cautiously very briefly touched on syria and it was a change of tone for those who remember how the u.s.

was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries just a year ago with radical forces gaining momentum in places like syria like libya maybe the changes that we've now in the region are not much to their liking among other threats america faces the president talked about cyber attacks he said he had issued an executive order to protect government agencies and key infrastructure from cyber attacks but he did not mention is how the u.s. government itself is carrying out cyber attacks like the reported cyber attack on iran's nuclear program while there's no proof that they're building them on this administration said it would view a serious cyber attack. against the united states is an act of war but apparently when the u.s. carries out the attack it should not be seen as an act of war. and you can dorian's adding to the polls in a presidential election with incumbent rafael career open to keep his job one man is most probably rooting for him as the world's most famous whistleblower julian

assange and you still holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london to create granted him asylum there. reports. as voters have to pool their president rafael correa looks set to win a third term in office according to the latest pools the left wing economist at the heart of the seven other presidential candidates with approximately sixty percent of people backing the incumbent one person who is especially interested in the outcome of sunday's elections is julian assange the founder of wiki leaks whose fate in some way depends on the results last year after there was involved in the center of international dispute allow the whistleblower to take refuge in its embassy in london where he had fled to avoid being sent to sweden for question over accusations of sexual assault fearing that upon his explanation to sweden he could immediately be sent to the united states where he says he made the best songs request political asylum or earlier in two thousand and twelve korea featured t.v.

show the world tomorrow but aired on r.t. in the interview it emerged that the two men had something in common both and korea had washington. is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way. welcome to the club of the persecuted. thank you. although seiler was granted. the other remains at the embassy as the u.k. refused to allow him to leave the country after his keep and that is why in this election one of rough strongest supporters he's an old whistleblower seething with the london embassy. so it's not a brief series a car bomb blast in baghdad killed at least twenty eight people and left the hundred more injured the explosions. of iraqi capital shoppers attended markets no groups yet admitted the attacks number of deaths in the region to move two hundred

fifty since the start of the year in pakistan people have taken the streets from bus to better security from the government today after eighty one residents were killed. in the city of seattle protests have been held in karate and as islam about sort of this attack was carried out by a sunni militant group an attack in the same city five weeks ago sort of huge blast and sukkot which killed more than one thousand people a. piece of warsaw have clashed with demonstrators protesting against the independence of kosovo officers used battles against crowds who fought back by throwing flares at the police meanwhile the parades been held in kosovo marking the fifth anniversary of its independence from serbia the self declared republic proclaimed its sovereignty in two thousand and eight. vatican is scrambling to choose a new pope after benedict the sixteenth stunned catholics in the week but unexpectedly a man sing his resignation the pontiff said his poor health led to his decision to be the first pope to quit in six hundred years some of the blow the numerous child abuse scandals and coverups across the catholic church and hebrews come paid

a barbara doris believes the pope just didn't do enough to address paedophilia during his eight years in charge. we believe that he are the words he showed there were still from the priesthood he apologized to the victims but he took no action he didn't discipline a single church official for hiding enabling children to predators or you know moving them from country to country from diocese to diocese so until he does that nothing has changed and we believe the words were just empty empty promises we have a bishop in the united states that was convicted of child endangerment and is still being allowed to run a diocese the message is clear if you follow the company like if you keep this secret if you put the reputation of the church above this if t. of the children then you will be promoted what a terrible message to send many people no longer trust church officials like they

did in the past and that's a very sad statement that you can't trust your bishops soon on this channel north korea's nuclear saber rattling is among the international stories we've got lined up for you right after this break in fact. wealthy british style. markets. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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i. get most praise reportedly preparing for more atomic test despite the widespread international fear enough for a death today for the third nuclear device on choose day described the move as an effort to shore up its national security and safeguard its sovereignty against what it called quote rageous us of still a t. test prompted warning so from washington and its allies are more sanctions moving than from a communist state now based independent news editor james corbett spoke to us he says the timing of this latest one couldn't have been worse to really i think we fall into a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with north korea in this and i imagine that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming

probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically . and in the u.s. there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time throw that through into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new army government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question of china specifically if they have a lot of pressure that they can put on north korea another country weighed by international sanctions iran announced this last week that it may allow u.n. inspectors into its part should military base their visiting shuttle for wednesday and date the facility suspected of housing the country supposed nuclear weapons development program something strongly denied by to iran still but the move is unlikely to stop those sanctions which mostly hit ordinary iranians. and that.

behind the smile lies pain and despair a bass in the run in with blood a cancer has just received his medicine but there is no guarantee he'll get it tomorrow the best jokes about patients being patient but sadly has no choice. it's so hard to get treatment these days it's not that i don't get any at all but you have to wait a long time and if you get it that only means someone else has missed. the reason for the drug shortage sanctions imposed by western countries and the republic they're not directly targeting the pharmaceutical or medical sectors but they hate banks and his trade restrictions but. unfortunately many foreign companies stopped selling us drugs they're not allowed to have cribbed relations with iran and people predict price with their lives. iran's officials warn it may have an

impact far beyond its borders. if we have a disease appear demick and are unable to vaccinate the population it could spread easily to neighboring countries and the fact to many even outside iraq. iran produces ninety six percent of its own medicine that the roma tearless behalf of them come from abroad more than fifty vital medicines have disappeared from the running around the city international sanctions came in because the foreign in britain c m a from can no longer make their way into iran people with cancer and him ophelia wait often ended with bad news that their drug is not available their chances of survival are getting ever slimmer as sanctions heat patients instead of politicians officials estimate a total of six million iranian patients could be in danger because of the drug deficit in the van by local and international media reported on the first death

apparently caused by the shortage. a fifteen year old boy who suffers from hemophilia couldn't get the medicine he desperately needed despite a frantic search by his family and he died in hospital on a hot. the west try to do now they tried sanctions on the military sector they realized we actually started making progress there but they wanted to weaken destabilize the country and the government is their aim this is why they now target people so that people get angry and take to the streets protesting that. and people indeed take to the streets this is a meeting of organ donors and some whose lives have been saved by transferring a process now complicated by the like of medicine for that. i thank god and the donor who returned me to lie i had heart problems and now his heart beats in my chest and i'm again why but the problem is that many too many are still waiting

surgery became extremely expensive and the number of donors decreased will they have enough time the. iranian doctors find themselves facing a very hard to to ration having to decide who will get the medicine and who will not in this ration they wrote an s.o.s. letter to the un chief they're still waiting for an answer brief interruption r.t. from iran. cover stories on line few do bring you up to date with football a wagner love come clean you know why wasn't always at his best on the pitch why well it seems the brazilian who spent seven years with a major moscow club no minutes spent too much time between the sheets that was to blame for his poor performance on the field the energy details on the. plus plan to build a replica of the titanic safely recreate transatlantic voyages caused quite a stir some people offered more than a million dollars for a ticket to find out the ship builders planning to avoid the fate of its

predecessor warned out online for. as well to go on. in portugal thousands of people have taken to the streets to voice their own group fresh measures holding banners and chanting slogans the march is called on parliament to reverse fears cuts it put in place in its attempt to reduce the country's huge. union led rally also called on the government to step down over the handling of the crisis despite hundreds three brussels the jobless rate is nearing seventeen percent portugal was the third european country to receive the bailout from you while of course in greece the first country to get emergency loans to avoid going bankrupt more people are now out of work any time since the financial system hit trouble five years ago a quarter of greeks are now unemployed twice the european average and each day hundreds of thousands of forced to rely on food simply to get by for work left evoque really says the dire situation here is hitting everyone hard on

a personal level. while it seems that it's getting worse not better and this is the famous rescue of greece from the european union this is starting to become a humanitarian crisis you see extreme poverty you see people that they tried to get a plate of food from the church we have two hundred fifty thousand people every day trying to get to the church to find food we're talking about the young people that they want to find a job in greece they're trying to leave the country we're talking about people that don't have access to primary health services this is something that's not only numbers it's one thousand people human beings in the european union that lose their jobs every day this is creating a human terror crisis inside the euro zone. next she could face the death penalty in a native afghanistan for converting from islam to christianity

a young girl's been allowed to stay here in russia as a refugee then after she was discerned by a family for changing her beliefs in a concha never reports. gloria was born in afghanistan by me two thousand and eleven and she and her family arrived in russia in a small town in the prone region in search of a better life her father pleaded for asylum but it was denied because there was no evidence that either he or his family were threatened with political religious or ethnic persecution by afghan authorities that was when rumors real hard breaking story began while living in russia she started war shipping in local churches and last november converted from islam to christianity it was a friend of my brother who showed me christianity now i go to the local church i can still be allowed to stand with the priests are seeing i read the bible in

arabic but i did it because everyone has a choice she says that for her father it was a betrayal here could not overcome her family flats leaving her behind quickly she realized she was old lone in an unknown country barely spoke the language and faced deportation but going back to have vanished down would mean aggers a-q. sion for recounting islam under the country's shari'a based law of gunnison is one of the most hazardous countries in the world for christians in early two thousand and eleven a video was circulated showing to be having a christian convert. by the muslim taliban there are many more similar cases some christians are thankfully see from agassi q after international pressure others are not so lucky it's a problem that's hard to quantify royle was already in a russian deportation center when she appealed to the authorities again it's given

her the chance to start a new life and find a job and hopefully leave behind the threat of being killed for changing her beliefs. head of a major economic and diplomatic organizations talk to president putin about russia's potential membership coming up the guerrero of the o.e.c.d. on currency wars the robin hood tax and russia's future in the group. i never knew adam lanza in person but i was in the same high school is that he was

younger than me just a little bit younger. i always thought he was different i always into something funny he rarely talks and you know he was a shy kid. i don't know anyone who was friends with him i also don't know of anyone who's particularly mean to the what i do know is that it was very clear that this person was not like everybody else. can imagine the level of mental illness that would be present to murder show. america's you know so when you go on this there would be an american behind every tree with a gun. i think for kids growing up in this environment is good for them at an early age to see the gun and respect it because they need to know what kind of damage it can do. this is our first task as

a society. keeping our children safe. this is how we will be judged. for. new year's celebrations on the move without the traditional t.v. all festive food surprising meetings and new adventures stories of love found and love lost all russians teach foreigners to celebrate them biggest holiday of the year for a must go to st petersburg by train over the new year. may be miracles. place . science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've. covered. we speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish

matters to you breaking news a little turn to angles the stories. you hear. the spanish. visit. reviving global economic growth is one of the priorities for the g twenty summit that will take place here in russia. but the key to achieving that is setting the right policies to discuss what these policies should be i'm joined by on him. the head of the organization for economic cooperation and development thank you so much for joining me sir during this visit to moscow you had a chance to meet with russia's president vladimir putin was russia's bid to join

the always discussed was almost the only topic because we did not have time to discuss too many more we discuss the g twenty also the accession of russia into the o.e.c.d. is for us of a game changer and it's going to be very important russia is a very large economy it's a very important presence in the world of energy it's a very important presence in all these international fora accent and so we really are very interested very excited about the buzz ability of having. as a member and i think russia can benefit also from being in an institution that is not about lending money is not about giving grants it's not about the fixing economies that are not broken it's about policy discussions about what are the best possible policies and therefore what can be the best practices.

that russia can adopt we're not going to tell russia what to do with russia we're going to tell the russians what other countries in the world are doing about the same problem of health care the same problem of education the same problem with innovation the same problem with research and development the same problem with the tax structures the same problem with the deficit whatever you just mentioned taxation and that's definitely one of the big issues that you're working on and particular with this. yes. trying to work with this scheme that many companies use to avoid paying taxes and these are big companies we're talking about including google and you know a number of others. what then amazon of course and starbucks and so on these are big names but there are plenty of companies i don't want to refer to any company in particular because there are thousands we created the set of rules

that are being used legally by these companies to avoid paying taxes ok now we have had a big war against tax havens about excessive bank secrecy about the secret counts by people not divulging the names those are to hide away from the taxpayers so that was in a way an easier war because we were fighting evil guy lity ok right no we are trying to combat a legal practice but that is giving absolutely the wrong results why because we wanted to avoid double taxation now we have created double non touch situation. and what is happening is that the balance between the multinationals and the.